Turning In Assignments Late

Carolyn Foster Segal, an English professor at Cedar Crest College, wrote The Dog Ate My Flash Drive and Other Tales of Woe to describe excuses students give for not turning in assignments on time. The professor makes it very clear in her syllabus she does not accept late assignments yet it has not deterred students from trying to do so. She breaks down the most common types of excuses in to five categories using sarcastic and witty humor.

I want to turn my assignments in on time. There are two reasons for this. The first reason is that it’s not a choice, it is a responsibility. My performance in this class

In “I’m Your Teacher, Not Your Internet- Service Provider”, Laird is able to explain how teachers feel when students give bogus excuses to them. She stated, “One student, emailed me days after a paper was due, indicating that he had traveled to New York for a Yankees’ game and would submit the essay in a couple of weeks”(Laird 417). The author mentions that this situation would not normally happen in a face-to-face class. As for the other essay, Segal describes the

First off, one of the biggest reasons for late assignments or bad grades is a lack of

Many parents and teachers believe it to be the fact that students stay up late and don’t get enough sleep, however there may be an underlying factor that may be out of a student’s control. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute highly recommends students, especially teenagers, get an average night of sleep around nine to ten hours. The easy solution would be for students to sleep early, however students are naturally wired to sleep late (Gilpin.) Sleep patterns change as you grow older, the pressure to sleep becomes more delayed to the later evening. This pressure to sleep is controlled according to a person’s circadian rhythm, which is the biological clock of

Sunday nights on Cartoon Network has become fertile ground for some of the most side-spitting, razor-sharp humor on this side of a cable box. The show concepts that constitute the "Adult Swim" block of programming on CN has drawn its fair share of rave reviews and harsh criticism from anybody willing to offer an opinion. For Afro-American viewers, no show represents that aforementioned razor's edge quite like Aaron McGruder's comic strip creation, "The Boondocks". The first season of the weekly series found every way possible to poke humor at many of the events, individuals, and situations we see around ourselves on a daily basis. In some cases, the biting satire that's

When a student is not focused, they find it more difficult to complete their work as comprehensively. This results in the students having to complete a greater amount of homework, which would lead to them staying up later. When students are not focused, they will not comprehend the work that the teacher is explaining and will not understand the content of what is being taught. When students do not understand the concepts taught, their grades may decline. When the student is not focused it also increases the chances of doing their homework incorrectly. Another reason why schools should have a later start is because the student may arrive sleep deprived. This results in the students’ exhaustion during class and increases their chances of falling asleep during school hours. Unfocused, tired students also have a difficult time comprehending the work that is assigned to them due to the student not being fully awake. If a student is taking a test while their mind is not rested, they potentially will not do as well as they might have if they had taken the test at a later time, having had an acceptable amount of sleep. Early school hours also result in car crashes caused by

I myself have been guilty of procrastinating on a daily basis. Seniors still want to make solid grades depite their lack of motivation to get them. As a result of putting off studying, students often cheat to maintain decent grades. Furthermore, some of them wait until the night before the test to cram in study time. Because of the desire for money and freedom, many upperclassmen spend their time working instead of completing homework assignments. A year of procrastination and negating responsibilities can turn into bad habits that follow some students for years to

In the following paper I will be discussing what series of actions brought me to write this paper, the army regulations surrounding said actions, the possible effects these actions might have on the accomplishment of the mission, the possible affects on your career, and how to discourage and possibly stop such things from ever happening soon or ever again. The reason I am being subject to this time consuming, uninspired, and rather lackluster writing assignment is because I failed to be at the correct place of duty at the time appointed to me by my superiors. The day before we had a relatively late work call and I adjustment my alarm clock to reflect the change and give myself ample time to get myself ready

Homework is hard, classes are difficult, survive is tough and life is hard. However there's no way you could make any excuses for yourself. In Carolyn's essay The Dog Ate My Flash Drive, and Other Tales of Woe, she mentions what kind of excuses did she get from her students during the years, "Those reasons fall into several broad categories: the family, the best friend, the evils of dorm life, the evils of technology, and the totally bizarre"(345). No matter high school students or college students, they just make up an excuse for why they turned in their work late or why they didn't show up in class. They should find some solutions to solve the problems instead of making any

Surprisingly, only 12 of the 51 students tested with self-imposed deadlines (roughly 27%) chose to submit their papers on the last day of the semester. Some of these students still handed in their papers before they were due, without a rigid schedule enforced by the class. However, the remaining 39 students with earlier deadlines, chose to forgo utilizing the extra allotment of time to avoid even the temptation of procrastinating. The other 48 students, with fixed deadlines, had to maximize their efforts, with the limited time they had, to work more

Soon, I discovered a method to avoid the potential of feeling insubstantial, if only for a few more hours or days. Thus, allow me to introduce you to an old friend, procrastination. My way of thinking soon became, “If I’m not going to get an A, then why even put the effort in?” and consequently, innumerable assignments were put off until five in the morning where it would be due in two hours or it would never reach my teacher’s hands at all. I’m sure most teachers believed the cause to be laziness or a lack of ambition, however I strongly believe that if they’d known the constant stress, self-doubt, and exhaustion that I

There is a myriad of reasons which explain why students become sleep deprived during the school timings. For example, students are busy and have to juggle many things like jobs, extracurricular activities, chores, and homework after school (Epstein and Mardon, 2). With all these obligations, people cannot possibly expect students to get to bed on time and receive the needed nine hours of sleep. Even if they could finish their duties early, they are teenagers after all and want to have fun rather than habitually carrying out their perfunctory duties. When they have free time, they go to

The problem of procrastination starts when a student waits until minutes before a class to study for a class. This may seem like a solution for students who are pressed for time; however, this doesn’t allow time for the information to be solidified and vital information can be lost. These behaviors form because students have found that in the past they were able to successfully pass the class by doing their homework literally hours before the projects deadline. This reckless learning may help pass the class, but doesn’t give the information the time needed to be solidified into memory. This reckless learning also produces effects within projects that are often below the students’ academic level and can cause

There are all always two types of students in this small world, first, the students that come ready to class with a three to five-page essay all proofread, nice and stapled with three transition sentences highlighted turned. Second, there are those students who come to class with not even half of a paper written out, unstapled, not a single transitional sentence highlighted and may have plenty of errors due to not proofreading the essay. Those second group of students are procrastinators, which are people who delay an assignment to do the task right before the deadline. Now, why do most of all 99.99% of school boys and girls procrastinate? Well, most people might have problems with lack of focus, or the person might be lazy and decide to